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Uganda closes borders with DRC over Ebola outbreak

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Uganda confirms five Ebola cases as regional leaders meet at Speke Resort Munyonyo to strengthen cross-border response

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EBOLA: Uganda, DRC to share $13m in US emergency response funds

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Ugandans cautioned after Ebola outbreak in Eastern DRC

Over 18 million children to be immunized against measles-rubella and polio in Uganda in a mass immunization campaign

Health October 16, 2019

Uganda is set to immunize over 18 million children against Measles and Rubella which is 43 per cent of the entire country’s population. Included...

At least 2.2 billion people have vision impairment or blindness- WHO report

Health October 10, 2019

More than 1 billion people worldwide are living with vision impairment because they do not get the care they need for conditions like short...

Supervisors oriented on upcoming national vaccination campaign against Measles and Polio diseases

Health October 8, 2019

Uganda will conduct an age-wide national Measles-Rubella vaccination campaign (MR Campaign) from October 16-20, 2019 targeting children older than nine months to under 15...

Museveni wants private pharmacies out of gov’t health facilities

Health October 2, 2019

President Yoweri Museveni has directed the Minister of Health, Jane Ruth Aceng, to oversee the closure of all of all privately-owned pharmacies in government...